Database Engineering Intern at Copart, Inc — Dallas, TX

Copart is seeking motivated candidates for an internship opportunity with its Database Development team. This internship will provide hands-on experience in database modeling, development, and maintenance.

Learning Scope:

• Analyze data requirements for business applications and build conceptual model.
• Develop physical data model and data migration/conversion strategies for internally hosted applications.
• Reference data maintenance. Work with business analyst to keep the reference data as per industry standard.
• Troubleshoot production data issues. Identify and Cleanup of junk data.
• Program and write SQL code to support the creation of tables, views, stored procedures, functions, reports and triggers.
• Develop and maintain complex stored procedures, views and functions on MariaDB, MySQL, DB2 AS400 and DB2 LUW databases.
• Utilize software development principles and experience to support the full lifecycle of software products.
• Work with application teams to identify ways to optimize the database tier and work to implement improvements for future releases.

Desirable Skills:

• Ability to be flexible and work well with changing priorities.
• Time management skills with ability to participate in multiple projects/work streams
• Develop simultaneously as well as strong analytical/problem solving skills.
• A self-starter who thrives with minimal supervision.
• Have the ability to express yourself well, verbally and on email.
• Ability to work with all levels of staff, management and external vendors.
• Strong knowledge of Python Object Oriented Programming, design patterns, algorithms, and data structures.
• Knowledge on frameworks such as Flask / Django along with NumPy / pandas.
• Solid understanding of HTML and JavaScript
• Solid understanding of SQL
• Designing, implementing and using REST APIs to orchestrate services in support of business requirements.
• Familiar with Git tool for source code control and continuous integration.
• Fluent in Linux/UNIX shell and common commands.

Required Experience:

• BS, BA in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, MIS, or relevant technology degree.

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